Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together (TIME, April 28), ships grow more precious by the hour. In Australia and New Zealand are piled up tons of butter and cheese which England needs desperately. Attempts to move the big Australian wheat crop were abandoned several months ago for England can get its wheat by a shorter haul from Canada. Only a fraction of the 840,000 bales of wool which Britain arranged last October to send from Australia to the U.S. has arrived. Shipments of chilled and frozen Argentine beef to England (which needs it badly) dropped from 367,982 metric tons...
...must begin by winning the first battle over its own demagogic weaknesses," Guy said. Germany was spending enormous sums in constructing its army, France was spending large amounts for social reform. To arm itself effectively for battle, a nation cannot afford the luxury of granting its workers higher wages shorter, hours, and the privilege of engaging in long drawn-out strikes...
Worse than the police was the cold prison. Young had nothing to sit down on but the damp cell floor. At last Ambassador Grew sent Young his sealskin-lined overcoat. Grew is over six feet tall; Young, much shorter. When Young turned up the coat collar, he was covered from head to foot. Young soon discovered that the Ambassador's coat gave him a certain diplomatic immunity. "As long as I had it on, the police would recognize it as Ambassador Crew's property. Removed, I was just another reporter." Young never took it off, wore it even...
Cancellation of the regular six week Naval Science cruise and the substitution of a shorter trip of a maximum length of 24 days, to be taken any time between June 1 and September 1, was announced yesterday by the Department of Naval Science and Tactics...
Sirs: In reference to your article, "Food: A Weapon," TIME, March 31. Leaving Hitler out of this, if possible-what if the farmers of the U.S. should go on a strike for highert wages, shorter working hours, two weeks vacation with pay ? Oh ! My goodness! What am I saying! JAMES E. ALLISON Asheville...